Max bischoff



(No Model.

M. BISGHOPP.

SEPARABLE GARMENT.

Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX BISCHOFF, OF NFAV YORK, N. Y.

SEPARABLE GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,834,dated September 22, 1885.

Application filed July 1, 1885. (No model.)

To 0. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAX BISOHOFF, of the city and county of New York, in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Garments for Ladies WVear, of which the following is a specification.

I make a separable New/market or Raglan, by which terms I intend to describe a fulllength outer garment or over-garment, the line of separation being a little below the waist. The parts are peculiarly adapted to allow the garment to serve perfectly in two conditions-first, with the parts attached together to serve as a fulllength garment, and, second, with the lower or main skirt portion detached to allow the remainder to serve as a wrap or jacket. I will for brevity term the upper portion the jacket and the lower separable portion the main skirt. A short skirt or continuation of the jacket extending below the waist is formed with a notch or recess at the back extending nearly up to the waist. The lower portion or main skirtis correspondingly formed to extend up and fill that space. These parts are made to lap sufficiently one upon the other to allow of proper fastening by buttons or the like. I provide a separate piece to fill the notch in the jacket when the main skirt is detached and the jacket is used alone.

In what I esteem the preferable construction the short skirt of the jacket has trimming attached by its upper edge, arranged to conceal the buttons or other fastenings which are set in the short skirt of the jacket.

The following is a description of what I consider the best means of carrying out the invention. The accompanying drawings form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a view of the complete garment, and Fig. 2 a view of the jacket with the fillingpieee applied. The remaining figures represent details on a largerscale. Fig. 3 isa back view with the main skirt attached. It corresponds to Fig. 1. This is represented as having a portion of the trimming which conceals the upper end of the extension broken away. Fig. at is a corresponding back View with the main skirt detached and the filling-piece inserted. Fig. 5 represents the extension of the main skirt detached. Fig. 6 represents the filling-piece detached. Fig. 7 is a vertical section at the side with the main skirt attached. Fig. 8 is a horizontal section through the short skirt at the back with either the main skirt or the filling-piece in use. The main skirt and the filling-piece present the same appearance in this View.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures where they occur.

A is the jacket; A, the short skirt thereof, and A a strip of trimming on such short skirt.

B is the main skirt, and B the extension thereof, adapted to close the notch in the short skirt when the parts are properly joined together.

G is my lilling-piece-a small piece of fabric adapted to close the notch a in the short skirt A when the main skirt B is detached.

D are buttons set in the outer face of A.

D are buttons set on A, adjacent to the notch a, and arranged to engage in button-holes produced in the filling-piece C. Other buttonholes, (I, are made in the filling-piece to match over the buttons at the upper edge of the notch a. The sides of the filling-piece O are folded backward and inward, as indicated by 0. Button-holesdareprovidedinthefoldededges,co1'- responding in position to the button-holes similarly marked d in the correspondingly folded inward portion of the part B of the main skirt.

Then the garment is to be used as a Raglan, the filling-piece G is not used. The several buttons D and D on the short skirt A are engaged with the button-holes d in the upper edge of the main skirt B. All are concealed by the trimming A except the buttons D. The filling-piece '0 being carefully preserved ready for use, when required, the garment,composed of the jacket and main skirt,properly attached, may be used in all respects as if the whole were a single garment.

IVhen through change of season or for any other cause the lady wishes to wear the jacket without the main skirt, she disengages all the buttons, thus detaching the main skirt, which may be folded and laid away for future use, and takes out from the wardrobe the previously-unused filling-piece LG and applies it to fill the notch in the jacket. The buttons D adjacent to the notch engage in the button- ICO holes in the sides ofthe filling-piece, thus completing the short garment or jacket.

Whenever it is desired to use the full-length garment, the filling-piece O is again detached by disengaging the several buttons D D, and the main skirt B, with its extension B, again attached, as before described.

Modifications may be made in the forms and proportions without departing from the principle or sacrificing the advantages of the invention. Thelineofjunctionofthemainskirtwith the short skirt may be lowered by giving an increased depth to the short skirt A. The line of junction may be raised somewhat by giving a narrower breadth to A than here shown. The number of buttons and button-holes may vary. Other fastenings, as hooks and eyes or various forms of clasps, maybe employed.

Parts of the invention may be used without the whole. I can dispense with the notch a and'with the extension B from the main skirt B. In such case I can dispense with the filling-piece 0; but I prefer the notch a with the complication which it involves, including the employment of the filling-piece O, for the reason that such construction allows a just sufficient fullness of the clothing atthat portion of the dress in both conditions of the garment.

When the main skirt is attached and the garment is used as a Raglan or long over-garment, the more or less pleated material of the main skirt extends continuously up nearlyto the waist without being interrupted at the back by the short skirt. This is in accordance with the fashion for long garments, and with good taste. When, on the contrary, the main skirt is detached and the garment is to be used as a jacket or wrap, the short garment would not be complete while the notch remained unfilled. The filling-piece completes the short garment when. it .is to be used as such, and by being removable does not encumber the garment when it is to be used as a long one. I can, however, realize some of the advantages of the invention by making the short skirt continuous across the back and omitting the extension B from the main skirt.

In all the varieties of material, style of cut, and modifications in the appearance of. garment, trimming may be used, either for the ordinary purpose alone of decorating, or for the double purpose of decorating the garment and disguising or concealing the union of certain parts. It may under some circumstances be preferable to allow bright or other ornamental buttons to appear at some points, 'especially at the back. In cases where it may be desired to conceal the buttons D across the-top of the notch a, a piece of trimming or an ornament should bedisposed so as to cover them. I haveshown a piece of trimming, A so used. A strip of trimming, A, attached by its upper edge to the exterior of the short skirt A, serves an important use in concealing the buttons D. V

The style of the sleeves and of other. parts of the garment, excepting in the points refcrredto, may be varied within wide limits.

I claim as my invention- The jacket A, having notch a, and short skirt A, with trimming A combined with the main skirt B, removably secured at D to the jacket, and with a filling-piece, O, constructed to match the short skirt A, and adapted to serve with the jacket when the main skirt is not in use, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at New York city, N. Y., this 27th day of June, 1885, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

.MAX BISGHOFF. Witnesses:

THOMAS DREW Srnrson, CHARLES R. SEARLE. 

